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grand opening
| Friday, August 04, 2006 @ 10:18 My family has been a little confused that I was anticipating the opening of a Michael's store here with so much eagerness & excitement. Most of them don't even know what Michael's is. I tried to explain a bit by comparing it to Hobby Lobby, but it's still not something they understand. Even now, they aren't sure. But thanks to my mom I was able to collect several 50% off coupons and we have scored quite a bit of good stuff in two trips this week:
And we still have one more 50% off coupon to use tomorrow. I just need to decide between a knife set (exactos with swivel, craft, and straight blades), a brayer, or a stamp set -- unless I think of something else before tomorrow! Yes, lots of what they sell is overpriced, repackaged items that appeal to less savy shoppers. I'm not going to pay $1.69 for a "craft organizer" pouch without dividers when Target sells a "file organizer" with dividers for $1 (that expands wider). Nor am I going to pay $5 for "collage backgrounds" that are faux dictionary pages when I can buy a used dictionary for 50 cents at a garage sale and have 100x as many pages. But if you know what you really need and can't get elsewhere or make yourself, it's a godsend of a store -- esp. if you know how to work their sale cycles and coupons!
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